The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” reports in its latest newsletter:

“We are happy to report that the Barr Foundation has matched the $25,000 we raised for our underpass advocacy work. If you want to lend your support (financial or otherwise) to add underpasses on the Boston side of the Anderson Memorial, Western Av, and river Street bridge reconstruction.”

Falsely named because this entity, one of the most active environmental destroyers on the Charles River, is flat out lying when it claims to be a “conservancy.”

2. Their fake photo / rendition.

We posted this rendition recently concerning the lie from the Charles River Conservancy about what they propose to do on the Boston side of the River Street Bridge. The River Street Bridge is the next bridge across the Charles west of the BU Bridge. Responsible have condemned these people’s comparable outrages on the Cambridge side. So they switched to the Boston side because the bureaucrats did not realize they could be so irresponsible as to simply switch sides of the river. When dealing with the Cambridge pols and their friends, it is always a serious error to assume “They would never stoop so low.”

The poor dears from the Cambridge Machine and their friends have such a major problem with reality.

On July 22, I took photos of the area shown in their rendition which certainly looks like a photo, which I have copied again, above.

A. 15 11 07-22 River St Br Appr w br

The tall buildings in the middle are on the north, Cambridge side. They extend to the east from the northeast intersection of Memorial Drive and the River Street.

The highway is Soldiers Field Road. This is the same highway as Storrow Drive. The change in names is part of a long tradition of incompetence on the part of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Careful inspection at the far left of the picture will show above the guard rail the River Street Bridge. Above that you will see yellow and black signs warning of height limits. Above the yellow and black signs is another structure straddling the highway on which can, with great care, be seen a green and white destination sign.

The right hand support of the last structure is at the beginning of the area shown in the CRC’s fake photo.

B. 16 10 07-22 Riv St Br Appr.

This is a closer view of the previous photo, taken at an angle from which you can no longer see the River Street Bridge. The two structures across the highway are still visible.

C. 17 09 River St Br Appr.

Shot taken from even further west on the south side of Soldiers Field Road.

A significant portion, if not all of the trees you are looking at would be destroyed.

I do not have the plans and the plans are always kept as secret as possible.

Once again, note the structure crossing the highway which is, at its right, at about the point of the CRC photo. At this angle, the Cambridge buildings are almost directly north. The distance to the River Street Bridge is that great.

D. 18 08 07-22 Riv St Br Appr, S Side Ramp

The previous photos were taken with a close up lense. This is more of a normal view, taken from the on ramp to Soldiers Field Road on the south side.

Note the sudden disappearance of trees on the river side. And note also that, from this view almost directly to the south, you still cannot see the River Street Bridge.

E. 19 07 07-22 Riv St. Br Appr, S Side

This is the first photo looking in an easterly direction. It is taken from the south side on ramp.

Notice that structure straddling the highway again. Notice the trees between it and the river. Would all these trees be destroyed? Very likely.

Notice also the very long emptiness abutting the river. This is part of the distance of the existing and the proposed ramp. The CRC “photo” shows this as a very tiny area.

F. 20 06 07-22 Riv St. Br Appr, Current small veh

This is the area which shows as the open area in the prior photo. EVERYWHERE to the left would be the proposed small vehicle highway BUILT IN THE CHARLES RIVER.

Very careful view of this photo (unless it is my imagination) shows that structure straddling the highway which is at the bottom of the proposed new small vehicle highway.

Note that the structure of the River Street / Western Avenue Bridge area is such that this construction in the river would have to extend the full length of the distance between the River St. and the Western Avenue Bridge, a distance much longer than this ramp, also not mentioned by the CRC’s puff piece.

On the left, the white building is a boat house on the Cambridge side which is built on the western end of Magazine Beach. The point sticking out into the Charles River is probably just to the west of the Magazine Beach playing fields to which such great destruction has been inflicted with major heartless animal abuse aimed at the Charles River White Geese.

G. 21 05 07-22 Riv St. Br from Walk.

This is the historical River Street Bridge taken from the small vehicle highway where the above photo was taken. The CRC’s highway proposal would chop into this historical treasure. And be built in the Charles River, below.

H. 22 04 07-22 Riv. St. Br Approach.

To the left is the existing small vehicle highway.

In the massive expanse of water would go the new highway.

Straight ahead, of course, is the River Street Bridge.

I. 23 03 07-22 Riv. St. Br, Bot of Appr

The curve in the highway to the right appears to be the bottom of the CRC photo. Note that the photo shows a change in grade at that point. There is no further change in grade going up the existing ramp.

The trees at the left would clearly be destroyed.

J. 24 02 07-22 Riv. St. Br, Bottom of Ramp.

The green post is the base of the structure straddling the highway I have been pointing out.

The River Street Bridge is visible straight ahead. Filled land ends to the right of the pedestrian fence / barrier.

This view is the most honest real life equivalent of the CRC fake photo.

Look at the distance. Looks at the excellent trees to be destroyed.

K. 25 01 07-22 Riv. St. Br, a little below.

Photo of the previous area from a little to the East.

You can see the green fence and its ending if you look very closly.

This is not that great a distance. Clearly the new highway photo shows no trees. There is a curve approaching the split. How much further to the right would be approach be built?

When I first followed up on my report on this outrage and the usual lies, I said that the threatened trees looked to me to be a foot apart from the car. This is the area I was talking about.

L. Areal Shot 2006, Cambridgeport.

This is taken from an environmental analysis. It is probably a satellite view.

The River Street and Western Avenue Bridges are on the left.

Notice the distance between the River Street and Western Avenue bridges.

The CRC’s environmental outrage is infeasible unless their highway is built in the river at river level between the River Street Bridge and the Western Avenue Bridges, then through the Western Avenue Bridge, then with further destruction west / north of the Western Avenue Bridge.

4. Analysis.

To put it mildly the CRC’s sketch is yet another lie. The bad guys can only win through lying.

And they lie, and they lie, and they lie.

Paterno has been punished. How much longer will the outrages associated with the Cambridge Machine continue?

About Me

Sponsored by Friends of the White Geese, Bob La Trémouille, chair/editor. Friends of the White Geese has worked since 2000 and has been a recognized Massachusetts, USA non-profit organization since 2001. Our goal is to defend the environment on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, USA.